Total Solar Eclipse 2024: Why is rare celestial event so important to witness?
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Solar eclipses are special events for astronauts and science enthusiasts. This year a total eclipse is coming on 8 April, which has increased the excitement of scientists.
According to a report by sciencenews.org, this year’s total eclipse will last longer, the sky will fall darker, and the sun itself will put on a much livelier show.
Apart from this, this year’s eclipse will be the last major one to cross North America for 20 years.
Why will the eclipse last longer?
In April, the moon will be at a point in its orbit that’s comparatively close to Earth, said the report. This wil make the moon appear particularly large. It will be a dark eclipse, lasting for nearly 4 and half minutes – two minutes longer than the Great American Eclipse of 2017.
The scientists claim that the sun would be close to solar maximum in 2024 – peak of its roughly 11-year activity cycle. This would result in lots of bright, petal-like streamers of plasma extending from the solar corona.
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This hike in solar activity may also increase the chances of a coronal mass ejection — large puff of hot gas trapped in a loop of magnetic field that’s blasted away from the sun’s surface, added the report.
If the coronal mass ejection takes place, viewers without other equipment should be able to see them.
What’s special about this eclipse’s path?
“There’s nearly 32 million people (who will be) inside the path (of totality),” Science News quoted cartographer Michael Zeiler as saying, who added, “That’s about 2½ times as many as during the 2017 eclipse. and the major East Coast metros from Baltimore to Boston are all about 200 miles from the path of totality.”
As per GreatAmericanEclipse.com founder Zeiler the path of totality is going be very accessible to some degree in every U.S. state as well as portions of northwestern Mexico and southeastern Canada.
According to NASA, the total solar eclipse will enter US in Texas, travel trough Oklahama, Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine. In Canada, it will be visible in southern Ontario, Quebec, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia
Will it be visible in India?
The 2024 total solar eclipse not be visible in India.
Eclipse time: 2.12 pm – 2.22 pm.
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Published: 27 Mar 2024, 06:48 PM IST
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